Andrew Biddle

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY – CONSULTANT OVERVIEW

SAP Data Migration Project Lead and Development Manager with nine years of SAP R/3 implementation and ABAP development experience. 

 

Recent experience includes:

  • European headquarters reorganization in two phases as the Data Conversion Manager and PMO
  • Two ECC 5.0 Food & Beverage solution implementations for all phases from Blueprint to Go-Live and post-implementation support as the Development and Conversion Manager
  • Development and Conversion manager in a 4.7 implementation
  • Eight global data migration / SAP implementation projects as a senior developer and analyst for several master and dependent data objects in SAP R/3 - 4.6c

 

SAP R/3 EXPERIENCE

SAP R/3 experience includes (but not limited to):

 

Accounts Receivable data

Recipe and Prod Version data

Customer Master

Logistics Invoice Verification

Bill of Exchange data

ABAP Workbench

Material Master data

Purchase Inforecord data

LSMW

Vendor Master data

Source List data

BDC load processing

Bill of Material data

Inventory data

Direct Input and IDOC loads

ALV and OO development

BAPI and BADI implementation

Legacy Interface design and dev.

 

In addition, he has also worked with SAPScript, Smartforms, Cranberry (BackOffice data migration), MS Project, MS Access, AS/400, Oracle and MS SQL Server7.  Experienced problem solver, process designer and excellent communicator. Broad functional and technical skill set to determine data requirements, design processes, and translate to technical specifications. Will complete full development cycle as required. High familiarity with many data load objects and LSMW standard and extended functionalities.

 

HISTORY OF SAP CLIENT PROJECTS AND ENGAGEMENTS

         DATE                                CLIENT                                               ROLE

09/2006 – 07/2007         Rohm & Haas Company                         Project Office Conversion Manager

11/2005 – 09/2006*        Allen Family Foods                                Development and Conversion Manager

03/2005 – 06/2006*        Carolina Turkeys                                    Development and Conversion Manager

11/2004 – 02/2005*        Rohm & Haas Company                         FI MMP development lead

05/2004 – 11/2004         Tasty Baking Company                          Development and Conversion Manager

03/2002 – 08/2004         Rohm & Haas Chemicals                        Senior data load Analyst and Developer

11/2001 – 03/2002         Anheuser-Busch                                    LIV Senior Developer/Upgrade Analyst

05/2000 – 10/2001         FMC Chemicals                                     ITS Lead Developer/Web integration

06/2001 – 07/2001         Millenium Chemicals                              CRM and ITS short-term fixit Developer

07/1998 – 05/2000         PriceWaterhouseCoopers                       ABAP/4 Senior Developer

 

* Overlapping phases on concurrent projects

 

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified SAP R/3 Consultant in ABAP/4

Certified TopTier EIP (Enterprise Information Portal) Consultant

 

RELEVANT PROJECTS AND ENGAGEMENTS

Client:  Rohm & Haas Chemicals                                                         September 2006 – July 2007

Industry:           Chemicals

Project Scope: European Reorganization

Specific Role:  Data Conversion Manager and IT Project Office member

Results: SAP R/3 - 4.6c ABAP Data Conversion Manager and IT PMO member, two phase European implementation in a current productive environment. Requirement to convert all data objects into a newly organized European structure with changes to plants, sales organizations and company codes encompassing 140 conversion activities of master, dependent and transactional data. Owned and implemented the methodology for conversion and delta process. Also developed several high risk conversion objects including inventory, recipes, bill of materials, production versions and pricing.

 

Client:  Allen Family Foods                                                                  November 2005 – August 2006

Industry:           Food & Beverage

Project Scope: Initial Installation from Legacy to SAP ECC 5.0

Specific Role:  Development and Conversion Manager

Results: Full scope HR and SAP R/3 – ECC 5.0 implementation. Development and Conversion manager for Deloitte, using SAP Solution Manager. Designed, developed and performed all conversion dataloads and 90% of the development for all SAP R/3 FRICE. Managed the HR development and remaining 10% of the R/3 development through offshore resources in Tulsa and Hyderabad, India.

 

Client:  Carolina Turkeys                                                                     March 2005 – June 2006

Industry:           Food & Beverage

Project Scope: Initial Installation from Legacy to SAP ECC 5.0

Specific Role:  Development and Conversion Manager

Results: Full scope HR and SAP R/3 – ECC 5.0 implementation. Development and Conversion manager for Deloitte, using SAP Solution Manager. FRICE full life cycle management of the offshore remote Deloitte Hyderabad ABAP development team from blueprint through build and integration test. Designed, developed and performed all conversion dataloads.

 

Client:  Tasty Baking Company                                                            May 2004 – November 2004

Industry:           Consumer Package Goods

Project Scope: Initial Installation from Legacy to SAP 4.7

Specific Role:  Development and Conversion Manager

Results: Full scope SAP R/3 - 4.7 implementation. Development and Conversion manager. FRICE full life cycle management of the offshore remote Deloitte Hyderabad ABAP development team. Trained onsite team through conversion extractions and dataloads processes.

 

Client:  Rohm & Haas Chemicals                                                         March 2002 – August 2004

Industry:           Chemicals

Project Scope: Global Rollouts from Legacy to SAP 4.6c

Specific Role:  Senior data load Analyst and Developer

Results: SAP R/3 - 4.6c ABAP data migration analyst and senior developer at Rohm & Haas for BOM and Recipe, AR Open Balance, PIR and Source List data, and inventory loads; intermediate database cleansing using Oracle, Access, and MS SQL Server7. Direct input data loads, LSMW and custom BDC development. ABAP List Viewer (ALV) and excel upload/download report development in support of the transport migration system and master data objects.

 

 

 

Client:  Anheuser-Busch                                                                       November 2001 to March 2002

Industry:           Consumer Package Goods

Project Scope: Logistics Invoice Verification Upgrade Project

Specific Role:  LIV Senior Developer/Upgrade Analyst

Results: ABAP developer for Anheuser-Busch, Logistics Invoice Verification upgrade project. Dialog programming modifications and user-exit development from a Conventional Invoice Verification system to the new Logistics Invoice Verification module (MM/FI accounts payable) on a 4.6C SAP environment. ABAP dialog and report development for IXOS imaging and document archiving integration with workflow.

 

 

Client:  FMC Chemicals                                                                        May 2000 to October 2001

Industry:           Chemicals

Specific Role:  ITS Web-Integration Lead Developer

Results: Lead developer for the BioPolymer and Lithium FMC ITS projects, modifying the CPG division's ITS Ordercenter into a configurable development environment for a cross-system transport to the Biopolymer and Lithium divisions. Experience heavily weighted toward the web-integration development environment: ABAP, SAPScript, BAPI, WebRFC and ITS, JavaScript, VBScript.

 

 

Client:  Millenium Chemicals                                                               June 2001 to July 2001

Industry:           Chemicals

Specific Role:  CRM and ITS short-term fixit Developer

Results: Short term contract request for an ITS and CRM developer on a joint SAP and Accenture web integration project for Millennium Chemicals. Part-time remote as well as onsite development was performed to create webRFC’s for a conversion from SAPScript to PDF output.

 

Client:  PriceWaterhouseCoopers                                                        July 1998 to May 2000

Industry:           Management Consulting Services

Specific Role:  Project Team Leader / FI-CO Team Leader

Results: Developed objects of varying SAP modules including PP, FI, SD, MM and WM, for several Fortune 500 clients. Accomplished in several stages of the implementation life cycle including analysis and functional design of Order to Cash and Warehouse Management SAPScript objects, ABAP development, and post go-live ABAP and SAPScript support. Functional and tech spec development, as well as the creation and execution of unit test scripts for all objects.

·         Level 1 and Level 2 TopTier EIP certification (design and development). TopTier portal (SAP Portals) integration using HTML, TopTier XML, JavaScript, and ASP applications with an HRNP (HyperRelational Navigation Protocol). EIP architecture and portal design/installation. Personalization and role administration through the iHUD (intgegrated Heads Up Display) and iPanel. Development of iViews and queries. Integration of Crystal Reports to a HyperRelational application (Drag and Relate protocol). Microsoft Web Application Development using MS Visual InterDev 6.0 and Microsoft SQL Server 6.5.

·         E-commerce STC e*Gate software development

·         Technical development roles for Gillette, IFF, General Motors Europe, BOSE, and FMC.

·         Senior Developer of the Solution Delivery Centre.

·         PricewaterhouseCoopers SAPScript trainer for the SDC.

·         Team Lead of the Knowledge Sharing Cross-Team, responsible for the collection and distribution of technical knowledge within the SDC.

·         Successfully completed the SAP R/3 training program for ABAP/4 programming. Training covered Interactive Reporting, Module Pool Programming, Batch Data Communication (BDC), R/3 System Architecture and SAP's Correction and Transport System (CTS).

·         Training includes MERCATOR, and ALE.

·         Successfully completed the MCS Information Technology Individual Study (MITIS) program. Training included the PricewaterhouseCoopers System Development Life Cycle Methodology and System Management Methodology (SMM); GUI development tool PowerBuilder (PC and Oracle platforms), Oracle database, SQL Plus, and C programming (UNIX and Oracle platforms); and an introduction to JAVA programming (Sun server/internet and Browser platform).

 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Company:  Biddle Consulting Inc.                                                       October 2000 - Present

An Independent Consultant specializing in implementations of SAP R/3 enterprise resource planning (ERP) software.

 

 

Company:  Intellex Inc.                                                                       May 2000 – October 2000

An Independent Consultant - ABAP/4 Senior Developer and Technical Analyst

 

 

Company:  PriceWaterhouseCoopers                                                  July 1998 – May 2000

Management Consulting Services, Solution Delivery Centre – SAP Consultant Level 2 – ABAP/4 Senior Developer.

 

 

EDUCATION

 

University of South Carolina, M.B.A. - 1998                      Operations Strategy

Pennsylvania State University, B.S. - 1990                       Aerospace Engineering